Functions in biological and artificial worlds: comparative philosophical perspectives
Introduction -- Philosophical perspectives on organismic and artifactual functions / Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes -- Bridging functions of organisms and artifacts -- Changing the mission of theories of teleology : dos and don'ts for thinking about function / Mark Perlman -- Biological and cultu...
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| Format: | Edited Volume |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]
MIT Press
2009
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| Series: | The Vienna series in theoretical biology
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| Volumes / Articles: | Show Volumes / Articles. |
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| Online Access: | Verlag, Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz306135418inh.htm
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| Author Notes: | ed. by Ulrich Krohs ... |
| Summary: | Introduction -- Philosophical perspectives on organismic and artifactual functions / Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes -- Bridging functions of organisms and artifacts -- Changing the mission of theories of teleology : dos and don'ts for thinking about function / Mark Perlman -- Biological and cultural proper functions in comparative perspective / Beth Preston -- How biological, cultural, and intended functions combine / Françoise Longy -- On unification : taking technical functions as objective (and biological functions as subjective) / Pieter E. Vermaas -- Functions and normativity -- Functions and norms / Peter McLaughlin -- The inherent normativity of functions in biology and technology / Maarten Franssen -- Conceptual conservatism : the case of normative functions / Paul Sheldon Davies -- Ecological restoration : from functional descriptions to normative prescriptions / Andrew Light -- Functions and classification -- Being for : a philosophical hypothesis about the structure of functional knowledge / Giacomo Romano -- Realism and artifact kinds / Marzia Soavi -- A device-oriented definition of functions of artifacts and its perspectives / Yoshinobu Kitamura and Riichiro Mizoguchi -- Evolutionary perspectives -- The open border : two cases of concept transfer from organisms to artifacts / Wybo Houkes -- Innovation and population / Tim Lewens -- The cost of modularity / Ulrich Krohs -- Technical artifacts, engineering practice, and emergence / Peter Kroes |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 026211321X 9780262113212 |